Florida born and bred, this Chiu-weenie does not like temps under 80 degrees........so an old TN house is tooooo cold and once the sun comes over the mountain, which it doesn't look like it will today cause of the clouds, she wants outside to lay beach bunny style in the hottest spot available!

Here was a challenge... a friend gave me a dress she got from overseas many years ago and asked me to make it into a quilt. Well of course, I had to add some fabric! But its all silk and I really love the way it turned out.

This old quilt weighs a ton and has about been loved to death. It has a heavy old batting in it and is all hand stitched. I know nothing of its providence. I think the creator had a fabulous color sense; I just love the fabric choices, they are so dynamic. Sort of an early version of Kaffe Fassett!

Yes I put him up to it........a little feel good message for those who read the entire post!!!!!!!!!

Just looked at the date and thought about my grandma, she was born today, October 4 in 1887! Wow, and our lives overlapped for about the first 20 years of my life.

​I love doing portrait art, why don't I do more of it? Guess I truly cannot decide what I want to do when I grow up. Well anyway, in May of 1915 she married Frank Greer and they had 2 daughters and the rest is history as they say. My mom had 2 daughters and her sister had 2 daughters and a son. She was such a fountain of information about the olden days, I wish I could talk to her again and had paid closer attention when I had the chance!